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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Dracula has made Lucy Seward a vampire!
Dr
Van Helsing arrives, too late to save the poor girl, but not too late
to send her tormented soul to the afterlife by staking her thru the
heart.
Now, his attention turns to her master...Count Dracula!

Though there were a number of Frankenstein tales in the Golden Age, including Dick Briefer's long-running series, there were only a couple of appearances by our favorite vampire (usually a cameo) before this story in 1953!
The trend continued until the late 1960s when Dracula became a supporting character in the b/w Vampirella magazine.
In
1972, when the Comics Code was revised to allow vampires and other "traditional" monsters, the Count
reappeared not only in short stories, but a long-running series from
Marvel highlighted by moody art by Gene Colan.

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